Perfectly normal, but not like this.

https://www.opensecrets.org/obama/inaug_2009.php

PURITY TEST ALERT! YOUTUBE LINK DETECTED!

Jesus y’all are a bunch of lock-stepping little fascists.

CEO at my last company refused any security access he didn’t strictly require. He’d just laugh, “Yeah, no, don’t even want that.”

In my IT experience, it’s the department heads, or people an outsider thinks is important, that get spear phished. Job before last, the HR woman got overrun with attacks. LOL, she was the most useless, clueless person in the company but she sounded important on paper. Director of Human Resources. She had two people under her in a 35 employee outfit.

You don’t always want the most meritorious at the top. Ever heard of the Peter Principle? Being competent with the task at hand doesn’t always translate into leadership ability.

Can’t find it, but there’s a great quote, maybe by Ford, about hiring. Good engineers are a dime a dozen, the man who can effectively lead those engineers is a rare one.

I’ve found people that want a paper trail on every tiny thing to be weaselly, don’t trust 'em a bit. The reverse is true as well. When someone goes out of their way to keep all communications oral and private, yeah, weasels.

Yep. China will get nothing of Taiwan’s true wealth. OTHO, see why America is pumping chips? CHIP Act.

1990s conspiracy nuts: “The Jews control the world!”

Israel’s actions are not helping to dispel that notion. I GET it now.

I have nothing against Jews, never have, always thought that prejudice was weird. What is this, Europe, 1453?!

2024: Speak against Israel, or FOR Palestine: Get your guts stomped out. Huh.

Israel: You’re not helping Jew’s image.

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Lemmy users are above average intelligence, and that ain’t much to say, and if maybe young and idealistic. Dumbass users don’t typically land here.

Not hard to land here, but keep in mind, a great many people can’t read. Serious.

My view on climate change is that Thomas Malthus would have made it the 5th entry had he known.

“Hack”

I call it a disgruntled employee on their way out.

Execute the captain and first mate, take the ship, tell Russia to suck it.

I am so goddamned sick of Russia and China constantly testing the West and getting no response but “condemnation”.

I guess we never fight back? Maybe sink a fucking ship or 10? Like the ones fucking with our ally, the Philippines?

All these fuckers do is test and test and test. Results? Nada. We do nothing. They escalate. We do nothing, “condemn” their actions. Same goes for Russia.

The US has the most powerful military on the planet. What for? Either fold up, draw in, fight defense, or strike back. Diplomatic actions are not working.

And here I am reading Doctorow’s Pirate Cinema. How very timely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Cinema_(novel)

Using those now! Have 3 drives in a Storage Space, another for backup. (And offsite backups!)

You shop on a train ride? Don’t know about you, but I bring home more than 4 humans can carry.

We obviously need train service between metro areas, and train service within large areas. But America is wired for individual transportation. Undoing that has a monstrous energy impact to consider, better, but it ain’t free.

And iPhone users will snap them up. My wife would pay quadruple for the logo alone.

“It has to be Apple compatible!”

I should start a business. Hell, Monster fooled everyone for a decade+ with their high prices and “quality”.

Was wiring cable internet for a dude, tugged his Monster cable a bit, end fell off in my hand. My god, the insides were appallingly cheap, fabricated from Chinese whispers and toilet paper. Every element here was as cheap as it gets.

He was a bit upset, a bit surprised. I showed him the differences between the Monster cable and what I was using, made him a new one. Happy camper!

The plug will be the same, bet money. There are already several sorts of USB-C. And think on this, the USB-A has had the same shape for going on 30-years.

Almost every LED in my house is the filament style. You would love those. Great company I linked. I wrote them for advice and got a long, technical and accurate reply.

I can’t take a train almost anywhere I drive. Think they’ll open a spur to:

• The swamp down the road
• My camp in BFE
• Anywhere on the local creeks and rivers

And can I bring a truck bed full of kayaks and gear? Oh, I also haul home shitloads of trash I find. Is that allowed on trains?

Trains are the best for moving a human body, carrying nothing, from one population center to another. And that’s it.

OP just said he couldn’t tell you that.